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No mushrooms growing in the yurt. Got in Friday afternoon just in time to arrange bouquets, and checked during daylight– only a couple spiderwebs in the yurt, really not much, a bunch of dried leaves though like the wind’s getting in somehow, hum. Farmkid was determined to help me “set up” my yurt so I did get the bed made, with her help, and then went back to finish arranging the farmer’s market flowers.
Then we had pizza and I gave The Travel Slideshow to everyone, which was fun. Then to bed, and boy was it windy– 40 mph sustained, with gusts, really something. I found out where the dry leaves were getting in, and tied down that part of the roof. I’d already tied down the roof on the windward side, and so that was fine, but that meant that the roof was flapping up on one side instead, so. Anyway. Structurally fine, but. I have so much jealousy about the bent-rafter Turkic yurts, it’s just so easy to make them wind-tight, and mine with the flat rafters just doesn’t have room at the roof junction the same way so I have to think about how to fix that.
Saturday I worked the entire farmer’s market, which helped B-I-L out a lot because there was just some drama among the fulltime staff and he’s the board president and so he had to go Talk To People, which meant he was away from the booth for several hours, which was fine because I was there. Had i not been there, he really wasn’t sure how he would have managed. Middle-Little came by and helped tear down, at least; she’s been pitching in like that because she lives near the market but she sometimes works on Saturdays.
Then my BFF and her husband and kids rolled in to camp out overnight, so we did that and it was fun– had a little cookout over the camp fire, finally really got to use my lil fire pit. it was 45 degrees that night, and we were fine but I do need to get my yurt a little better-insulated. I have the stuff, I just have to put it up and hope it doesn’t blow away. Er, tie it down and secure it so it won’t.
I would do anything for some nice bent rafters. I have to figure out how I could make those. i’ve just got to. They’d be so great. The yurt walls are shorter, then, and the ceiling takes up more of the height, and the door is taller than the walls, and just all these little details become easier. I just gotta. I’d need a new tundyk though, and I don’t think I could make one. Sigh.
Anyway.
Bestie and children left yesterday afternoon, and Dude got on the train in late afternoon, and I slept extremely deeply and long last night to catch up. It was 47, which it turns out is not that uncomfortable a sleeping temperature if you have a nice woolly hat and adequate socks. I haven’t even broken out the heavy comforter. I might tonight though.
Chicken day tomorrow; I’ve volunteered to cook. There is some mutton in the freezer here and I’m going to cook plov with it. Also I insisted i get a birthday cake, so we’ll have that too. (I didn’t get any cake this year! It’s important, I need it so i can grow.)
I just dropped Farmkid off at school and now I can’t find anybody around this farm, so I’m stealing half an hour to sit a moment and catch up on my life. Shh don’t tell.
I should go and harvest some flowers to dry, we’re to the part of the season where we need to scramble and get everything put by that we possibly can.
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No mushrooms growing in the yurt. Got in Friday afternoon just in time to arrange bouquets, and checked during daylight– only a couple spiderwebs in the yurt, really not much, a bunch of dried leaves though like the wind’s getting in somehow, hum. Farmkid was determined to help me “set up” my yurt so I did get the bed made, with her help, and then went back to finish arranging the farmer’s market flowers.
Then we had pizza and I gave The Travel Slideshow to everyone, which was fun. Then to bed, and boy was it windy– 40 mph sustained, with gusts, really something. I found out where the dry leaves were getting in, and tied down that part of the roof. I’d already tied down the roof on the windward side, and so that was fine, but that meant that the roof was flapping up on one side instead, so. Anyway. Structurally fine, but. I have so much jealousy about the bent-rafter Turkic yurts, it’s just so easy to make them wind-tight, and mine with the flat rafters just doesn’t have room at the roof junction the same way so I have to think about how to fix that.
Saturday I worked the entire farmer’s market, which helped B-I-L out a lot because there was just some drama among the fulltime staff and he’s the board president and so he had to go Talk To People, which meant he was away from the booth for several hours, which was fine because I was there. Had i not been there, he really wasn’t sure how he would have managed. Middle-Little came by and helped tear down, at least; she’s been pitching in like that because she lives near the market but she sometimes works on Saturdays.
Then my BFF and her husband and kids rolled in to camp out overnight, so we did that and it was fun– had a little cookout over the camp fire, finally really got to use my lil fire pit. it was 45 degrees that night, and we were fine but I do need to get my yurt a little better-insulated. I have the stuff, I just have to put it up and hope it doesn’t blow away. Er, tie it down and secure it so it won’t.
I would do anything for some nice bent rafters. I have to figure out how I could make those. i’ve just got to. They’d be so great. The yurt walls are shorter, then, and the ceiling takes up more of the height, and the door is taller than the walls, and just all these little details become easier. I just gotta. I’d need a new tundyk though, and I don’t think I could make one. Sigh.
Anyway.
Bestie and children left yesterday afternoon, and Dude got on the train in late afternoon, and I slept extremely deeply and long last night to catch up. It was 47, which it turns out is not that uncomfortable a sleeping temperature if you have a nice woolly hat and adequate socks. I haven’t even broken out the heavy comforter. I might tonight though.
Chicken day tomorrow; I’ve volunteered to cook. There is some mutton in the freezer here and I’m going to cook plov with it. Also I insisted i get a birthday cake, so we’ll have that too. (I didn’t get any cake this year! It’s important, I need it so i can grow.)
I just dropped Farmkid off at school and now I can’t find anybody around this farm, so I’m stealing half an hour to sit a moment and catch up on my life. Shh don’t tell.
I should go and harvest some flowers to dry, we’re to the part of the season where we need to scramble and get everything put by that we possibly can.
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